FDA Approves Eli Lilly’s Jaypirca for Relapsed Mantle Cell Lymphoma Eli Lilly has received FDA approval for Jaypirca, a non-covalent BTK inhibitor, in relapsed mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) patients who have relapsed after treatment with other drugs in the class. Adult MCL patients who have previously received at l...

FDA Approves BeiGene’s Brukinsa for CLL/SLL BeiGene's Brukinsa (zanubrutinib) for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. CLL is a common type of leukemia, accounting for approximately 25% of all new cases each year. SLL is...

Behcet’s syndrome is an uncommon multisystem inflammatory ailment marked by ulcers in the mouth and genitalia, different skin lesions, and eye abnormalities. It is linked to several new clinical symptoms, all caused by an underlying vasculitis that affects arteries of all diameters. The HLA-B*5101 allele of HLA-...

Gilead Buys Out Rights to Cancer Therapy from Jounce for USD 67 Million Gilead Sciences must have liked what it saw in a two-year-old collaboration with Jounce Therapeutics for CCR8-targeting cancer immunotherapy because the company has just agreed to own the program fully. The drug in question, GS-1811 (formerl...

Myotonic dystrophy (DM), known as "the most variable of all diseases found in medicine," is a multi-systemic genetic disorder that is the most common form of adult-onset muscular dystrophy. myotonic dystrophy is the only type of muscular dystrophy that affects cognition and brain function, in addition to the heart,...

FDA Grants Orphan Drug Designation to AUM302 for Neuroblastoma A global clinical-stage biotech company, AUM Biosciences, focused on discovering and developing precision oncology therapeutics, declared that the U.S. FDA has permitted Orphan Drug Designation for AUM302. For the treatment of neuroblastoma, AUM302 i...